UConn, Texas sign four-game contract

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published 7:00 pm, Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The contract calls for four games over the next six seasons. The Longhorns will visit UConn in the 2009-10 and 2013-14 seasons, while the Huskies will make trips to Austin in 2010-11 and 2014-15. There are no games scheduled between the teams in 2011-12 and 2012-13.

The sites for the games in Connecticut will be at Gampel Pavilion or the XL Center, but have yet to be determined. All of the games in Austin will be held at the Erwin Center.

The two teams have met five times before; the Huskies won the first three but lost the two most recent meetings. Their last matchup came in the 2003 NCAA tournament, a Sweet 16 game in San Antonio that the Longhorns won 82-78.

Rick Barnes, who matched wits with UConn's Jim Calhoun and the rest of the Big East while at Providence from 1988-94, is now in his 11th season coaching the Longhorns.